Awards for GPs combating COVID-19
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Urging the district officials to work towards making villages COVID-free, Rural Development and Panchayat Raj Minister K.S. Eshwarappa on Monday said that the government will be identifying good work
Urging the district officials to work towards making villages COVID-free, Rural Development and Panchayat Raj Minister K.S. Eshwarappa on Monday said that the government will be identifying good work done at the village levels by instituting awards for individuals and gram panchayats. The government has decided to give the best gram panchayat award in every taluk and three persons will be identified as “Uttama Sevaka” (good worker) at the taluk level for the services rendered in mitigating the COVID-19 surge in rural areas. “We should make villages COVID-free and efforts should be made to make entire gram panchayats COVID-free,” the Minister said in his address during a virtual meeting of chief executive officers and senior officials on Monday.
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